Panaji: India grabbed six more golds from the athletics arena on the penultimate day of the track and field events, taking their overall tally to 58 medals.
India now have 25 gold, 18 silver and 15 bronze medals in their kitty. Portugal, who are behind them, have collected 25 medals - 11 gold, seven silver and as many bronze.
The gold came from Harshith Shashidhar in high jump and Sachin Patil in 3,000 m steeplechase in men's competition, while in women's section Anu Raghavan won in 400 m hurdles, Bhairabi Roy (triple jump), Rengitha Chellah (200 m) and the 4x400 m relay.
With this, India has 15 gold, 14 silver and eight bronze medals from the track and field competition.
Harshith Shashidhar completed an Indian sweep in the high jump by emulating his woman compatriot Tintu. Shashidhar cleared 2.13 metres and was closely followed by team-mate Shreenith Mohan at 2.11.
Portugal's Tiago Jose Marques Costa had to settle for a bronze at 2.06 metres.
It was a moment of triumph for Angolan girl Felismina Cavela as she won the 800 m well ahead of India's Priyanka Patel. Felismina captured 1,500 m silver medal finish.
The triple jump competition saw Bhairabi Roy fetching India yet another gold with a leap of 12.48 metres.
Team-mate Siva Anbarassi followed with 12.31 m and Portugal's Vanessa Rocha's best effort of 12.15 m got her the bronze.
Anu Raghuvan's women's 400 metre gold came with a fair amount of ease as she time the run in 1:03.53 minutes, well ahead of Guinea Bissau girl Graciela Martins and Sri Lanka's Niluka Dushanthe.
The men's event, in this category, was dominated by Mozambique runners Kurt Couto and Creve Machava who finished first and second respectively, while Lankan Nandana was third.
Mozambique's Alberto Mamba was the cynosure of all eyes as he clinched his second gold of the games by winning the 800 m to add to his 1500 m title won on the opening day.
Mamba, who earlier said there was little competition for him here, timed his run in 1:53.96 minutes to cross the finish line ahead of India's Lalit Mathur (1:54.36) and Cape Verde's Mauricio Alves (1:55.74).
The men's 200 m was an intense battle between Holder da Silva of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde's Danielsan Martins who had won a silver in the 100 m on the opening day.
Ultimately it was Holder, who held off the Cape Verde runner to make up for his 100 m failure, where he couldn't qualify for the finals.
Kirandeep Kaur provided India gold in 200 m, winning it in 25 secs flat.
Sachin Patil gave another gold by winning the 3000 m steeplechase.
India's Naresh Maloth took the silver ahead of Portugal's Jose Nuno Rodrigues. The 4 x 400 m relay for men was won by the Sri Lankan quartet, with Cape Verde finishing second and India third.
The Indian women's foursome, however, emerged winner to give the country its sixth gold of the day from athletics.
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